"later formed the basis for two books, ""Cricket Mad"" and ""Football Daft"". In the 1980s, Parkinson wrote a series of children's books called ""The Woofits"" about a family of anthropomorphic dog-like creatures in the fictional Yorkshire coal-mining village of Grimeworth. The books led to a TV series, which he narrated. He wrote a sports column for the ""Daily Telegraph"" and is president of the Sports Journalists' Association. His book ""Parky: My Autobiography"" was published on 2 October 2008. In April 2009, Parkinson wrote about the recently deceased Jade Goody in ""Radio Times"". He described her as ""barely educated, ignorant and"
"""expert phone-in troll, arrogantly spouting inflammatory football opinions in the hope of prompting some indignant phone rage from an uppity fan."" He once accused Jamie Carragher of being a ""bottler"" for retiring from international football, which prompted the Liverpool and England defender to call in to the show to confront Durham. His criticism of Celtic manager Neil Lennon prompted a phone call from Celtic fan Rod Stewart, who gave Durham a ""gentle lashing"". Adrian Durham Adrian Durham (born 13 May 1969 in Dogsthorpe, Peterborough, England) is a football journalist and broadcaster. Durham began his broadcasting career in Leeds in the"
"Football Crazy ""Football Crazy"" is a song believed to have been written by James Curran (died 1900), which, with slightly different lyrics, became a minor hit in 1960 for Scots folk duo Robin Hall and Jimmie Macgregor, largely as a result of exposure on the BBC's ""Tonight"" programme. The song was covered by another Scottish singer, Adam McNaughtan, under its original title of ""Fitba' Crazy"", on his 1988 album ""Words Words Words"". As an instrumental arrangement, it is also used as the theme tune to BBC tv's ""Match of the Day"". The phrase ""football crazy"" came into popular use during"
"journalism working for the Manchester Evening News as the City correspondent where he frequently referred to City as ""God's own Club"" and later became the Chief Sportswriter and England correspondent. Paul is the author of the book ""Memories of a failed footballer and a crap journalist"", the Foreword being written by former Manchester City Manager Alan Ball. Although undoubtedly a ""True Blue"" as a journalist Paul was well known for upsetting both Manchester City and United fans in his weekly columns. During Press Conferences Alex Ferguson would regularly react badly to questions from Hince who was delighted when Ferguson responded"
"hostile reaction during an interview on BBC Radio 5 Live, where he was asked about Rio Ferdinand being struck by a coin from the home crowd during the previous day's Manchester derby. Pat Crerand Patrick Timothy Crerand (born 19 February 1939), is a Scottish former footballer. After six years at Celtic he moved to Manchester United where he was a member of teams that won the English League title twice, the FA Cup and European Cup. He also gained 16 international caps for Scotland. He spent one season managing Northampton Town and has since forged a career in the media."
"""Rage"", ""Solid Rock"" and sports magazines ""Mega Sports"" and ""Sported"". In 2016, he became Editor of ""Elite Soccer"", the coaching magazine of the League Managers Association, and in 2017 he launched ""Match Football Krazy"", a monthly companion magazine of ""Match"". He has also worked in TV and radio, working for BBC Radio 5 show The Mix in the early 1990s. Along with colleague David Houghton, he filmed a video diary of his travels around Japan at the 2002 World Cup for the BBC and this formed part of the television programme ""Beckham For Breakfast"". He has been a regular football"
"the 1960s, following the song's success, and was extended into the common phrase it is today, often paraphrased. Amongst other things, it has been the title of: Football Crazy ""Football Crazy"" is a song believed to have been written by James Curran (died 1900), which, with slightly different lyrics, became a minor hit in 1960 for Scots folk duo Robin Hall and Jimmie Macgregor, largely as a result of exposure on the BBC's ""Tonight"" programme. The song was covered by another Scottish singer, Adam McNaughtan, under its original title of ""Fitba' Crazy"", on his 1988 album ""Words Words Words"". As"
"by Rob Hawthorne and Keith Andrews with Guy Havord reporting. Launched in 1995, ""Soccer AM"", is a Saturday morning talk show presented by Fenners, ex-footballer Jimmy Bullard and Grimsby Town fan and comedian Lloyd Griffith, with a focus on humorous analysis of British football, largely but not exclusively based around the Premier League. Launched in 1992, ""Soccer Saturday"" is a live updates show, broadcast on Saturdays during the football season. The programme updates viewers on the progress of association football games in the United Kingdom on Saturday afternoons. The current host is Jeff Stelling, with studio pundits Phil Thompson, Matt"
"Dave Dameshek William David Dameshek (born June 11, 1970) is an American television writer and radio personality. Dameshek is currently a football analyst and writer for NFL.com, appearing on ""NFL Fantasy Live"" and hosting the ""Dave Dameshek Football Program"". Dameshek began writing for cable television hits including Fox Sports Net's ""Sports Geniuses"" and Comedy Central's ""Battlebots"". He received his first big break in 2001 when he was hired as a writer on Comedy Central's ""The Man Show"", hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla. Dameshek was hired for his trademark ""Upper Hand"" routine, a bit developed from his Best Man"
"Paul Vautin Paul ""Fatty"" Vautin (born 21 July 1959) is an Australian football commentator and formerly a professional rugby league footballer, captain and coach. He has provided commentary for the Nine Network's coverage of rugby league since joining the network in 1992 and has also hosted ""The Footy Show"" since its beginnings in 1994 opposite co-host Peter Sterling, until 2017. An Australian Kangaroos test and Queensland State of Origin representative lock or second-row forward, Vautin played club football in Brisbane with Wests, before moving to Sydney in 1979 to play with Manly-Warringah, whom he would captain to the 1987 NSWRL"
"Football Crazy (The Goodies) ""Football Crazy"" is an episode of the award-winning British comedy television series ""The Goodies"". This episode was made by LWT for ITV. Written by The Goodies, with songs and music by Bill Oddie. Football fans have become increasingly violent, and Bill, who is the worst offender, is arrested for disruptive behaviour by Tim (who has become a police officer). It is not Bill's first offence at the football and he proudly stands by during a listing of his previous misdemeanours as a spectator. Tim is of the opinion that the players are also to blame for"
"James Richardson (presenter) James Oliver Richardson (born 29 May 1966 in Bristol) is an English television presenter and journalist. He is best known as a former presenter of Channel 4's ""Football Italia"" programme and former host of the ""Football Weekly"" podcast on ""guardian.co.uk"". He currently hosts BT Sport's ""The UEFA Champions League Goals Show"", ""World's Strongest Man"" for Channel Five, the ""Totally Football Show"" podcast, and the ""Truth & Movies"" podcast. He is also employed by the Premier League featuring in content related to Fantasy Premier League and for overseas rights holders. He is an A.S. Roma fan, with his"
"Frank Deford Benjamin Franklin Deford III (December 16, 1938 – May 28, 2017) was an American sportswriter and novelist. From 1980 until his death in 2017, he was a regular sports commentator on NPR's ""Morning Edition"" radio program. Deford wrote for ""Sports Illustrated"" magazine from 1962 until his death in 2017, and was a correspondent for the ""Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel"" television program on HBO. He wrote 18 books, nine of them novels. A member of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame, Deford was six times voted National Sportswriter of the Year by the members of"
"famous, mostly Irish, soccer stars and pundits including Bill O'Herlihy, Eamon Dunphy, Johnny Giles, Liam Brady, Frank Stapleton, Colm Murray, Graeme Souness, Jackie Fullerton and Pat Jennings as well as pundits from the British channels, including Richard Keys, Andy Gray, Jamie Redknapp, Gary Lineker, Alan Hansen, Des Lynam, Jimmy Hill, Gordon Strachan, Terry Venables, Ian St John, Jimmy Greaves, Trevor Brooking, Brian Clough, Kevin Keegan, Barry Davies, David Coleman, Brian Moore and Gabby Logan. They also mock Irish television and radio personalities such as Marian Finucane, Miriam O'Callaghan, Vincent Browne, Tom McGurk, David McWilliams, Brent Pope, George Hook, Joe Duffy,"
"Jason Cundy Jason Victor Cundy (born 12 November 1969) is an English former footballer who played as a defender and radio broadcaster. He presents ""The Sports Bar"" on talkSPORT, ""Jason Cundy Kicks Off"" on London Live as well as commentating and presenting for Chelsea TV. During his career, Cundy played for Chelsea (1988–92, 41 league appearances), Tottenham Hotspur (loan in 1992, 1992 – November 96, with 28 games), Crystal Palace (one month-loan, 1995), Bristol City (another 30-day loan, 1996), Ipswich Town (after a loan, November 1996–99) and Portsmouth. Cundy is remembered for the ""freak"" goal that he scored against Ipswich"
"""That's just bullshit!"" Another was during the famous incident in 2000 when Boston defenceman Marty McSorley two-handed Vancouver's Donald Brashear over the head, which prompted Larscheid to react in a similar way. Tom Larscheid Tom Larscheid (born April 6, 1940) is a former Vancouver-based radio sports broadcaster and football player. After a career playing college and CFL football, he was the colour commentator for the CFL's BC Lions and the NHL's Vancouver Canucks for many years. After 45 years in broadcasting and covering the Canucks for 27 seasons, he retired on October 9, 2010 after doing one last game, the"
"theatre and stage roles. Most notably, he starred in the one-man show ""Fever Pitch"", based on the Nick Hornby novel of the same name. In 2014 he started working on a local crowdfunded spy thriller in Torrevieja, Spain, released in 2017. After leaving ""EastEnders"", Watt combined acting with his second passion, football, by becoming a sports journalist. He has presented for Channel 4, Radio 1, Radio 3, Radio 5 Live, talkSPORT, and cable TV. He has recently written, presented and produced several documentaries about football for BT Sport Films, including the 'Football Outposts' series. Until recently, he featured regularly on"
"had hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. His 31-year-old son Miles Frost died from the same condition in 2015. David Frost Sir David Paradine Frost (7 April 1939 – 31 August 2013) was an English television host, media personality, journalist, comedian, and writer. After graduating from the University of Cambridge, Frost rose to prominence in the United Kingdom when he was chosen to host the satirical programme ""That Was the Week That Was"" in 1962. His success on this show led to work as a host on U.S. television. He became known for his television interviews with senior political figures, among them the Nixon"
"David Croft (broadcaster) David Croft (also known as ""Crofty""; born 19 June 1970) is a Sky Sports TV broadcaster. He was born and raised in Stevenage, England. Croft spent three years working at BBC Three Counties Radio, first as a sports reporter then as Sports Editor. He moved to BBC Radio 5 Live in December 1998. During his time at the station he covered the 2002 FIFA World Cup, 2004 Athens Summer Olympics and presented Saturday Sport on 5 during the summer of 2004 and 2005. Croft was the BBC Radio 5 Live Formula One commentator and presenter, succeeding Maurice"
"newspaper groups in England: Times, Guardian-Observer, Telegraph, and Independent. Barclay left ""The Times"" in December 2011 due to cost-cutting measures. In January 2012, he started writing for the ""London Evening Standard"". Barclay is a regular guest on the Sky Sports programme ""Sunday Supplement"", and LBC 97.3's Saturday sports show ""Scores"". Barclay has written a biography of fellow Scotsman, the Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, entitled ""Football – Bloody Hell!"". The book was published in October 2010. Also, he is the author of one of José Mourinho's biographies. Patrick Barclay Patrick ""Paddy"" Barclay is a Scottish sportswriter. Barclay started his career"
"and reading thrillers. John Motson John Walker Motson, OBE (born 10 July 1945), also known as Motty, is an English football commentator who currently works for Talksport. Since 1971 he has been a commentator for over 2000 games on television and radio, including covering all the major football championships: FIFA World Cups, FA Cups, and UEFA European Championships. For a 30-year period, from the late 1970s to 2008, Motson was the dominant football commentary figure at the BBC, apart from a brief spell in the 1990s, when his friend and rival Barry Davies was selected for two FA Cup final"
"""The Sportswriters""), with co-panelists Carl Wollarski (Robert Smigel), Pat Arnold (Mike Myers) and Todd O'Connor (Chris Farley). To hear them tell it, ""Da Bears"" and Coach Ditka could do no wrong. The sketch stopped after Ditka was fired in 1993. The sketch usually showed the panelists drinking lots of beer and eating lots of Polish sausage, and often featured Todd getting so agitated about what was happening with the Bears that he suffered a heart attack, but quickly recovered (through self-administered CPR). The sketch also features the cast predicting unrealistic blowout victories for Bears games. Da Super Fan sketch has"
"coverage of Scotland's campaign in the 1990 World Cup Finals and in 1991 he was part of the team that won a Scottish BAFTA. White joined Sky in 1998. He has gone on to be considered the loudest and most irritating presenter in the world. In June 2003 he travelled to Senegal with Arsenal captain Patrick Vieira to report on Vieira's Diambers charity. White is best known for his round-the-clock presenting marathon on transfer deadline day. His favourite colour is canary yellow. In September 2016 White took over Talksport's 10am to 1pm slot from Colin Murray. The move followed News"
"Geoff Christian Geoffrey Hugh ""Geoff"" Christian (13 October 1934 – 7 November 1998) was a leading Australian rules football writer and radio broadcaster covering the Australian Football League and West Australian Football League. Geoff Christian began his career as a junior football writer by writing for ""The West Australian"" newspaper as a teenager in 1954. In 1961 he became Chief Football writer for the paper; a position he held for more than a quarter of a century. In the late eighties, he retired and concentrated on radio work. Christian was a member of ABC Radio’s ""Saturday Sportstalk"" program for a"
"had three books published – ""The Great Derbies - Everton v Liverpool"" (with Gerald Sinstadt), an autobiography, ""Anfield Days and Wembley Ways"" and ""Are You Watching the Match Tonight"", a history of football on television. He writes regularly in local and national media in sports broadcasting and life in general. His interests include British comedy, swimming and popular music. Brian Barwick Brian Barwick (born 21 June 1954), is an English sports administrator who currently serves as the chairman of the Rugby Football League (RFL) and Super League Europe Ltd. He is also a board member of the Rugby League International"
"""N ""if"" L"", where he describes the NFL environment if a notable event goes differently than in reality. (ex. Dwight Clark fails to make The Catch) In 2013, Dameshek started a series called ""The Sports Car"" where he films himself interviewing an NFL player from his car while driving around. Dave Dameshek William David Dameshek (born June 11, 1970) is an American television writer and radio personality. Dameshek is currently a football analyst and writer for NFL.com, appearing on ""NFL Fantasy Live"" and hosting the ""Dave Dameshek Football Program"". Dameshek began writing for cable television hits including Fox Sports Net's"
"Darts Championship. He has also presented British Eurosport's live Tour de France cycling coverage between 2005 and 2013. Since 2011, Richardson has hosted the World's Strongest Man television coverage. Richardson also contributes articles to the football magazine, ""FourFourTwo"", as their Italian football correspondent. He has contributed articles to ""The Guardian"". He hosted ""The Guardian""'s ""The World Cup Show"" for the 2006 World Cup. This turned into ""The Guardian"" ""Football Weekly"" podcast series featuring Monday and Thursday shows with Richardson as host and a panel of football journalists discussing the footballing week's events, both in England and across Europe. It was"
"guest on Talksport. He also worked with The Score Television Network in Canada as their English football correspondent for their ""Sportsworld"" and ""Footy Show"" programs. He was on every Sunday, giving his opinion on the happenings of the Premier League and the world of football. Webb's ex-wife Shelley Webb became a TV presenter, becoming a real footballers' wives interviewee, and then wrote the book called ""Footballers' Wives"". The couple have two sons, Luke and Josh, who both play football; Luke was most recently with Hereford United before being released, and Josh was with Walton and Hersham. Luke previously played with"
"Varsity Match against Cambridge University. Floyd presented ""Cricket AM"", the cricket version of ""Soccer AM"", for Sky Sports. He regularly presents the coverage of the Indian Premier League. Although he specialises in cricket he has also been the main presenter for Sky Sports coverage of Spanish Football's La Liga. He is a regular contributor to the Sky Sports blogs, especially during the Indian Premier League season. He has been referred to as having the 'hardest job' in IPL broadcasting. He has also hosted the prestigious English Cricket Board 'Coach of the Year' Awards. He has played in several celebrity charity"
"""Footy Show"" appearances but currently is still part of the broader Nine expert commentary team for big fixtures like the State of Origin. Speculation existed that 2017 would be Vautin's last season as host of ""The Footy Show"". In October 2017, Vautin was axed from The Footy Show. Paul Vautin Paul ""Fatty"" Vautin (born 21 July 1959) is an Australian football commentator and formerly a professional rugby league footballer, captain and coach. He has provided commentary for the Nine Network's coverage of rugby league since joining the network in 1992 and has also hosted ""The Footy Show"" since its beginnings"
"he remained as anchorman for 32 years. In all, he hosted over 2,000 editions of the programme. During his time on ""Scotsport"", Montford became famous for his trademark checkered pattern sports jackets, and some classic lines of football commentary, including ""What a Stramash!"" and ""Disaster for Scotland!"" During the 1978 FIFA World Cup, a technical fault with the feed from Argentina prevented ITV from broadcasting Hugh Johns' commentary on the Scotland-Peru game, so Montford's commentary, originally only intended for Scottish viewers, was used on the entire network (the same fault affected the BBC in reverse, with Scottish viewers having to"
"Final in 1967 and 1968. He commentated on the event from 1969 to 1975. He reached his peak around the late 1960s and early 1970s, when he was broadcasting almost every week, covering European finals and England matches, as well as a number of league title deciders (Arsenal's victory at Tottenham Hotspur in 1971, and Wolves' defeat of Leeds which handed the title to Derby County in 1972). He also co-wrote the books ""Masters of Soccer"" and ""Wickets, Tries and Goals"". By the mid-1970s, his career was somewhat in decline as the emergence of Alan Parry was denying him the"
"Chris Hunt Chris Hunt is a British journalist, magazine editor, and author. Hunt has worked in journalism for over thirty years, most often writing about football or rock music. He was Editor of ""Match"" from 1993 to 2001, a period that saw the weekly title become Britain's biggest selling football magazine. Between 2001 and 2006 he was the Editor of a series of special editions of UK music magazines, ""Mojo"", ""Q"", ""Uncut"" and ""New Musical Express"", producing themed publications on subjects such as The Beatles, U2, Kurt Cobain, Oasis, punk rock and mod. He was the editor of the series"